Re: Committing with past date?

Thank you Jakub! 

Forgot to look in the main git manpage, and that variable wasn't
mentioned in the git-commit manpage or in any FAQ.. 

Now I have a more tricky question.

The first part of my application history (the stone age) was maintained
manually using tarballs, but the second part was maintained using CVS
(the dark ages).

I have successfully imported the CVS history using git-cvsimport, but
now I want to add these older revisions that were made with tarballs to
the same tree, before the CVS revisions. The last tarball and the first
CVS revision have identical content, and I would like to somehow "glue"
the histories together.

Can this be done? 

Best regards,
Magnus



On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 04:12 -0700, Jakub Narebski wrote:

Magnus Hjorth [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

Can someone tell me how to make a git commit with a date other than the
current. I hope there is some easier way than changing the system
clock.. :)

See git(1), section "Environment Variables":
   git Commits
       GIT_AUTHOR_NAME, GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL, GIT_AUTHOR_DATE,
       GIT_COMMITTER_NAME, GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL, GIT_COMMITTER_DATE,
       EMAIL
              see git-commit-tree(1)

or you can use GIT_COMMITTER_IDENT, GIT_AUTHOR_IDENT.  See output
of "git var -l" to get form of it.
 

quoted

I'm trying to port over old version history that I maintained manually
(tarballs and changelogs) into a git repository. 

For that, I think it would be best to take a look at example
fast-import script: contrib/fast-import/import-tars.perl;
there is equivalent contrib/fast-import/import-zips.py if you
perfer either Pyhon over Perl, and/or zips over tarballs.